Cable denies Chancellor ambitions

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Vince Cable
Vince Cable

Business Secretary Vince Cable has denied that he is pushing to be made Chancellor as David Cameron faces a call from one of his own backbenchers to move George Osborne out of the Treasury.

Mr Cable sparked speculation over his ambitions when he told BBC2's Newsnight on Wednesday night that he would "probably" make a good chancellor. But the Liberal Democrat Business Secretary has insisted that he was working in a team with Mr Osborne and did not have a "radically different" agenda for the economy from the Tory Chancellor.

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